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Article: Airborne pathogens can be burned away.(Homeland Security)(scientists at the State University of New York, Buffalo, develop the BioBlower)
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- June 1, 2004
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A device that in minutes, instead of months, safely and inexpensively could destroy airborne biological agents in structures as large as the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C.--which was closed for an extended period after anthrax was detected there in October, 2001--has been developed by engineers at the University at Buffalo (N.Y.).
The BioBlower has immediate homeland-security applications, with the potential to eradicate a wide range of biological pathogens, such as anthrax, smallpox, SARS, influenza, tuberculosis, and other toxic airborne species. It destroys pathogens by heating contaminated air rapidly and could be employed either as a ...